When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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